True Stories

My daughter was 4 years old when she began to have, what we thought an imaginary friend. Every time she would do something she knew she wasn't suppose too, she would blame it on her friend April. This was when her younger brother wasn't old enough to play so...

I was about 6 years old when this happened to me. It was a normal night and cold in the house that we stayed in, as usual. Because I was so young, my mother allowed me to sleep with her in her bed. The way the master bedroom was set...

One night I was sitting in my living room watching TV with all the lights off by myself. Then all of a sudden I heard something. I looked around and thought maybe it was one of my dogs, but then I heard it again and my dogs were right...

In January 1996, a massive snowstorm made travel along West Virginia back roads nearly impossible to traverse. At the time, I was employed by the Federal Prison Camp Alderson. With the storm at its most severe, I got off from work one night at midnight. The previous night I had...

As a child I grew up in Duffield WV. My brothers and I would walk down the tracks, going to a store in Shenandoah Junction.  We would often pass an old house nestled between two orchards.  This home was said to be the house of screaming Jenny. I have listened to...

It was in the middle of the night, one day last Spring 2005 when I had a weird dream, or was it a dream. I was lying in the bed with Hannah, who was about 21 months old, and my husband on the other side of her. We were all...

One evening as I was reading, I started to hear a faint wailing noise. I did not pay much attention to it until it got louder. I asked my son if he could hear anything but he said no. Thinking I had a headache I took some aspirin but...

It was not a day for paranormal occurrences. The summer day was so bright and beautiful that I had felt the need to spend most of it outside in the swimming pool. Being sixteen and having the summer all for myself was wonderful. Especially when I was home alone. After...

When I was four years old, my family and I went to visit a cemetery near Fairmont, West Virginia. Since I was only four, I didn't know the name of the cemetery. We stopped and took a walk through the cemetery. It was only my dad, my older sister...

This incident occurred just north of the town of Fort Gay, on top of a wooded hill approximately 1/4 mile north on Hewlett Branch Rd. from where it connects with the Big Sandy River Rd. about 4 miles west of Rt. 152 (better known as the Tolsia Highway). There...

This is a story of an old house, a haunted house with a murderous past. I've heard stories by the people who have lived in it. My mother was one. She said that there was an old room that they used for a junk room, and at night it...

Chapmanville East Elementary School is very spooky first of all. It's a very large and exceptionally old brick building and it stinks inside. The school has a lot of character to say the least. I knew a teacher that worked there very shortly. She said that sometimes if she was...